{"id":94691744,"date":"2011-04-21T15:20:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T15:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/faa-fires-sleeping-air-traffic-controllers-issues-new-rules-for-handling-of-first-lady-and-vp-flights\/"},"modified":"2011-04-21T15:20:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-21T15:20:00","slug":"faa-fires-sleeping-air-traffic-controllers-issues-new-rules-for-handling-of-first-lady-and-vp-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/faa-fires-sleeping-air-traffic-controllers-issues-new-rules-for-handling-of-first-lady-and-vp-flights\/","title":{"rendered":"FAA Fires Sleeping Air Traffic Controllers, Issues New Rules for Handling of First Lady and VP Flights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<strong>The FAA announced new rules after a string of incidents <\/strong>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nA string of embarrassing incidents involving neglectful air traffic controllers this month has led the FAA to take action.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOfficials announced the firing of two controllers, one in Miami and one in Knoxville, Tennessee. Both were recently caught sleeping on the job.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFollowing an aborted landing Monday of a plane carrying Michelle Obama and Jill Biden, the FAA also announced new rules for flights carrying the First Lady or Vice President.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThose flights must now be handled by an air traffic supervisor; the same rule is already in effect for presidential flights.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMichelle Obama&rsquo;s flight was forced to abort its landing after an error brought it too close to a cargo plane. The flight later landed safely.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Source: <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/42684307\/ns\/politics-white_house\/\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The FAA announced new rules after a string of incidents &nbsp; A string of embarrassing incidents involving neglectful air traffic controllers this month has led the FAA to take action. &nbsp; Officials announced the firing of two controllers, one in Miami and one in Knoxville, Tennessee. Both were recently caught sleeping on the job. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94691744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94691744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94691744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94691744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94691744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94691744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94691744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}